Good Shelter is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Good Shelter
- WRENN ID
- solemn-vestry-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Good Shelter, Sandy Lane, Iken, IP12 2HE
- OS grid reference
- TM 411 552
- Coordinates
- 52.1425, 1.52229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Good Shelter is a cottage dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a thatched roof. The building features a lobby entrance and an outshut at the rear. It has one storey and an attic, with scattered windows that include casements with glazing bars. There are two dormers located at the front and rear, also with casements and glazing bars. The cottage has a gabled porch that includes a boarded door and a red brick stack on the ridge, which is partly rendered. To the right-hand gable, there is an outshut with a pantiled roof.
Local climate
Good Shelter sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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